why del is not a function or method?
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Wed Oct 18 04:28:34 EDT 2017
On 16/10/2017 16:37, Xue Feng via Python-list wrote:
> Hi,
> I wonder why 'del' is not a function or method. Most operations can be used
> as follows
> len(team)
> or
> team.append("tom")
> But, I think
> del team[2]
> is somewhat uncommon. Why does not it take a syntax we are famillar with?
It can look like a function
>>>> x = 3
>>>> del(x)
>>>> x
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'x' is not defined
>>>>
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Robin Becker
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